Steven Johnson has been named one of the most influential people on Cyberspace by Newsweek, New York magazine, and Websight magazine. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Feed , the award-winning on-line cultural magazine. He lives in New York City.

Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, Steven Johnson not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the computer screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also tracks their roots back to Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning. The result is a lush cultural and his...(展开全部)

大卫﹒麦考利：教育家、作家、画家、建筑师。曾获得多项国际大奖，包括“凯迪克金奖”、“波士顿环球报号角书奖”、“美国建筑师协会特别奖”、“华盛顿知识类儿童读物奖”、“荷兰银铅笔奖”，还曾经两度提名“国际安徒生大奖”，并于2006年被授予“麦克阿瑟基金学者”。他曾在罗得岛设计学院授课，培养出众多著名设计师和童书作者，其中包括也曾经6次获得凯迪克大奖的绘本大师大卫﹒威斯纳。 大卫﹒麦考利简化了艰涩的生理学知识，深入浅出地画出人体运作的故事，并以工程师和建筑师的眼睛与好奇心，将身体的建筑之美呈现在读者眼前。在他眼中，人体其实是世界建筑的原型：牙齿是罗马竞技场的拱门，髋骨彷彿威尼斯的叹息桥，鼻尖则是你无须攀登的山岭。他让我们的身体以非常美丽、人性而幽默的方式与我们见面。 理查德﹒沃克：科普作家，作品九十余册。曾荣获“艾凡提斯青少年科学图书奖”等多项大奖，他拥有...(展开全部)

In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, and even reached inside the rib cages of two cadavers to compare their spleen sizes. He observed nu...(展开全部)

约翰•伯宁罕(John Burningham) 于1936年生于英国萨里郡。童年就读于夏山学校，在校时大部分时间用来作画。1959年毕业于伦敦中央艺术学院。曾经设计海报、圣诞卡及画漫画。以图画书创作技巧来说，伯宁罕具有纯熟的绘图技巧与设计概念，透过运用不同的媒质，掌握其特色，并加上明暗及线条的运用，在画面上制造许多对比或惊喜等视觉效果，和文字一搭一唱，使故事呈现得更生动丰富，深深吸引全世界无数的读者。 1963年，他的第一本图画书《宝儿》（Borka）出版，即获得英国最高图画书奖项凯特•格林纳威大奖（Kate Greenaway Award)。《宝儿》是一个“丑小鸭”式的故事，是一本关于生命的励志书，跟随宝儿的奇异之旅，读者可以从中感受坚强品格的可贵，领悟到生命的奇遇。 1970年，他以《和甘伯伯去游河》（Mr. Gumpy’s Outing）再度获...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions–and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes–in our own lives or the groups we lead at work–why are the changes are so frequently short–lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality? ...(展开全部)

Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industri...(展开全部)

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped-and have been shaped by-the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism,...(展开全部)

'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finan...(展开全部)

At first savagely reviewed, The Way We Live Now (1875) has since emerged as Trollope's masterpiece and the most admired of his works. When Trollope returned to England from the colonies in 1872 he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he sat down to write The Way We Live Now, his longest novel. Nothing escaped the satirist's whip: p...(展开全部)